Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us
We’re very happy to announce a new addition to the Prototype bookshelf: core committer Andrew Dupont’s Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us published by Apress.
Obviously, Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us covers all you need to know about the latest versions of Prototype and script.aculo.us. But it goes well beyond that. Andrew does an awesome job at setting the context and giving appropriate background information, so much so that you’ll end up knowing not only the how but also the why. In the ruthless world of client-side development, that’s a serious asset!
Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us is a pleasure to read – the style is both straightforward and witty – and should appeal to beginners and seasoned developers alike.
If you want to try before you buy, you can always download a sample chapter or the table of contents from the Apress website. Or you can grab a hard copy and/or a pdf from the Apress website or from Amazon.
As always, happy Prototyping!
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Great. Go team Prototype. Such a cool tool. So good there are books written about it. Keep it up.
Nice. I’ve been waiting for a good book to come out covering Prototype – the libraries/frameworks chapters in most books don’t do it a hint of justice. Looking forward to getting my grubby mits on this one!
Is there a lot of different stuff covered in this book compared to the Pragmatic Programmers Prototype and Scriptaculous book? Loved that one as well, and would happily pick up this book too, provided it has a fair amount of new / different material. Either way, great to see another book on the library out… congrats guys!
Patrick: you’ll end up vexing me, man :-)
Ian: I find Andrew’s book to be quite different from mine, as I said on the bungee book’s blog. He goes about describing all the libs’ features in a fairly different way, and puts a lot of context around most of it. I heartily recommend his book in combination with mine.
@ Christophe Porteneuve
I should mentioned I haven’t read your book. I was referring to JS books in general that lump em all into one chapter, covering YUI, Dojo, Prototype, jQuery etc. :)
Just came across the book in B&N on Saturday, and I’ve read most of it in two days. It’s very rich in substance, and he keeps it moving with a light touch of the immediate experience of having each elegant solution dawn on you, with an appreciation of what discovering each browser’s “gotcha’s” would have been like on your own (and validating my perplexity at the ones I’ve hit that I didn’t realize Prototype has already solved). Prototype is very practical and smart, and this text reflects that spirit. Now I’m back here on the site to be sure we are using the latest version (we aren’t).
Just purchased it right now, great work,